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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22635, 14 February 1939, Page 8

♦ OVERSEAS ASMS LIMITATION The United States Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull), in a broadcast address. Is reported to have rejected a proposal that Mr Roosevelt should call an International disarmament conference. Stating that It was a sacred duty to strengthen their forces when the spectre of war haunted the world. Mr Hull said It was ’necessary also to remove the causes of ■ conflict. POLISH-RUSSIAN TRADE A Pollsh-Bussian trade agreement provides for a turnover of £6.000.000 a year. Russia will buy coal, textiles, and textile t machinery, and Poland will take manirancse. tobacco, furs, and fertilisers in • exchange. SEIZURE OF HAINAN Britain and France are maintaining dose contact over the Japanese occupation of Hainan Island and are making representations to Tokyo. Marshal Chlang Kai-shek says the occupation will have little effect on the present war and is the beginning of Japanese domination of the Pacific. AIR RAIDS ON MADRID More than 100 were killed in rebel air raids on Madrid. The rebels claim to have hit a Loyalist destroyer in a raid en Cartagena and to have bombed Valencia and Chillon. LOYALIST CABINET APPEAL A declaration issued after a meeting of the Loyalist Cabinet In Madrid appeals for the co-operation of all in "an entire, heroic, national front for the Immense task which awaits the Government." WORLD SKATING TITLE Miss Megan Taylor (Britain) retained the world women's figure skating championship at Prague. SECRET AEROPLANE “Bevnolds News" says Lord Nuffield is financing the construction of a secret aeroplane to make an attempt on the air speed record. A speed of 300 miles an hour is hoped for. NEW ZEALAND TREE-PLANTING EXPERIMENTS Seeds from many parts of the world have been used In hill country tree-plant-ing experiments at Lake Coleridge. The experiments may prove of great value in that trees of many kinds are being tested on country notable for its high winds and the general rigour of the climate. HIGH-COUNTRY PROBLEMS An investigation has been begun by an officer of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research into the problems of , high-country management. Special attention is being given to a caterpillar which has been held responsible for some of the damage to tussocks. POSSIBLE POWER SHORTAGE A conference of electric power supply authorities in the South Island will be held at Timaru on March 1 to discuss the possibility of a shortage of supply in the South Island from the growing demands on. Lake Coleridge and Waitakl. Proposals will be formulated at the conference for submission to the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple). PARISIENNE AND LUCKY JACK At a meeting of the stewards of the Porbury Park Trotting Club yesterday to ‘ consider a resolution by the Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association asking them to Inquire into discrepancies in the running of Parisienne and Lucky Jack on the two days of the club’s recent meeting. It was decided that the club was unable to go any further. The association’s alternative. that it would conduct an inquiry. was accepted DRAINAGE BOARD ELECTION Because the Minister for Internal Affairs has no power to intervene, the recent election of members of the Christchurch Drainage Board is likely to stand. The complaint against the conduct of the poll was made by the Labour Representation Committee. LOCAL BODY RATES Local bodies in and about Christchurch report a satisfactory payment of the rate demands for % 1938-39. The last day for payment of New Brighton Borough Council rates was yesterday. The Heathcote County Council claims the penalty after Wednesday, the Walmalri County Council Imposes an additional tax after March 7. and the City Council has fixed March 22 as the last day on which payment without penalty may be made. FREEZING WORKERS* AWARD Application will be made for the new Dominion freezing workers’ award, on Which a complete settlement was reached In Conciliation Council In Wellington recently. to be issued by the' Court of Arbitration on February 21 after submissions have been made about the terms of the award. The union Is asking that the expiry date be fixed at December 31, 1939, and the employers desire the award to expire on June 30, 1940. SIR JULIEN CAHN’S CRICKET TEAM Sir Jullen Calm's cricket team began its tour of New Zealand with a match against a combined eleven of past and present secondary school boys in Auckland. The Auckland team made only 85 runs In the first innings. The touring team In Its first Innings made 286 for eight wickets, the English test player. J. Hardstaff, making 89. For the visitors. Walsh took seven wickets for 24 runs. IMPORT REGULATIONS The Bureau of Importers has been advised by the Solid tor-General, Mr H. H. Cornish, K.C., that he will not give consent to the issue of an originating summons to test the validity of the Import Control Regulations, 1938. He holds that the regulations are a question of Government policy.